Mercury in Taurus

With Mercury in Taurus you're a slow, cautious and deliberate thinker, and learn more readily from your senses than from books. In fact, absorbing information may be easier for you if you relate it to your touch, sight or smell in some way. You're instinctively aware of the practical side to everything, and although you have good taste and some artistic aptitude, may have a hard time letting your imagination go. You have a strong and pleasing voice, and some talent at singing if supported by other indications, such as a conjunction, trine or sextile from Venus or Neptune.

These famous people have Mercury in Taurus (and also in the first house for emphasis): Marshall Applewhite, Theodore Bikel, Bruce Boxleitner, Joe Cocker, Moshe Dayan, Sandra Dee, Peter Frampton, Poncho Gonzales, William Lilly, Carolus Linnaeus, Eva Peron, Nicole Simpson, Barbara Streisand, and Mike Wallace.

Mercury is the innermost planet in the solar system, never getting more than 28 degrees from the Sun. Astrologically, it is always found in the same or an adjacent sign to the Sun. Astronomically speaking, Mercury is so close to the Sun that it can only occasionally be glimpsed in the twilight or dawn sky just before or after the Sun or the horizon has swallowed it up.

This Mercury-in-Taurus page and much of this 550-page resource website are excerpted from You and the Universe.